can i connect wiht arduino

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on June 13, 2009 at 9:59am

I think right now you can send data to the arduino from a vb.net component. Maybe this will help:
http://bigdoug2005.blogspot.com/2008/12/arduino-vbnet-control.html

To receive data and update the definition in real time properly, you have to create your own custom component. There is no proper documentation yet for creating them, see this thread:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/template-for-custom-compo...

In the next GH version, there will be components that will update the definition as soon as a text file or an image is modified. Maybe these components will be useful in the meantime.

Permalink Reply by Dimitrie Stefanescu @idid on June 13, 2009 at 2:07pm

actually, there's one cool component made by Giulio Piacentino which can be found here, which basically adds a hacked up version of updating gh. It's really cool, I definitively recommend to at least look through it.

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on June 13, 2009 at 6:48pm

I've been looking at it today, it's really useful, i already did my own version in vb.net based on it (read 'based' as in copied). Besides the timer, a nice discovery was that its possible to store variables in a scripting component in between grasshopper updates.
It shows how to call the script component again for an update on the definition, so maybe there's no need for custom components after all.

Permalink Reply by guillermo gago doreste on June 14, 2009 at 5:38pm

ok, it look to interesting, i will study it

thanks